My current research topic is Pore-scale study of drying in granular media. We study the effect of pore-scale heterogeneity on drying and fluid-fluid displacment in deformable and non-deformable porous media. For this purpose, we are developing pore-network models which account for physical processes and mechanisms at the pore-scale. Our work is done in collaboration with an experimental group led by Dr. Lucas Goehring, which performs complementray microfluidic experiments.

CV

• 2009- M.Sc. Agri. in Soil and Water Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude).

• 2012- M.Sc. Agri. in Soil and Water Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude); Thesis: Mobility of pharmaceutical compounds in agricultural soil: effects of biosolids application and solution chemistry; Adviser: Prof. Benny Chefetz.

• Currently- PhD. Student, The Department of Soil and Water Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 Publications

1. Borgman, Oshri, Fantinel, Paolo, Lühder, Wieland, Goehring, Lucas and Holtzman, Ran, 2017, Impact of spatially correlated pore-scale heterogeneity on drying porous media, Water Resources Research, DOI: 10.1002/2016WR020260.

2. Borgman, Oshri and Chefetz, Benny, 2013, Combined effects of biosolids application and irrigation with reclaimed wastewater on transport of pharmaceutical compounds in arable soils, Water Research, 47(10), 3443–3431, DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.03.045.

Comparing simulations to microfluidic experiments

Comparing drying simulations with different spatial correlation in grain sizes

Impact of matrix deformation drying of granular media